Daily blog (audio): Winners never quit? [Is this true?]

<p>Winners never quit? [Is this true?]</p> <p><br> <br> We're on a mission to help one million people RISE by 2030 - join the movement at <a href="http://www.myrise.co.uk/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.myrise.co.uk</a></p> <p><br></p> <p>Have you ever heard the phrase “Winners never quit. Quitters never win”?</p> <p>I’m sure you have.</p> <p>Everyone has, yeah?</p> <p>It’s a phrase I’ve gone back and forth on over the years.</p> <p>When I first started as a PT (nearly 20 years ago) it was the kind of motivational quote I liked.</p> <p>I say “motivational” – I don’t know how many people it’s ever actually helped motivate.</p> <p>Then over time, I came to the realisation that there’s nothing wrong with stopping doing something.</p> <p>To change course.</p> <p>To realise something isn’t working.</p> <p>To focus our energies on something we value more.</p> <p>Why keep doing something that we don’t like and / or isn’t benefitting us?</p> <p>But then I’ve veered back a bit.</p> <p>Since having kids.</p> <p>There’s something about hearing them say the word that I don’t like.</p> <p>“I want to quit football, tennis, gymnastics, trampolining, violin, etc.”</p> <p>Or “Insert Friend Name has quit XYZ – I want to as well”.</p> <p>I don’t mind them stopping doing something.</p> <p>But it’s the mindset that the word “quit” puts us in.</p> <p>Giving up because it got too hard.</p> <p>With something we actually still want to do.</p> <p>And it will probably “start again” with at the future.</p> <p>That’s the difference.</p> <p>When we “quit” exercising, better eating, etc………..</p> <p>Are we really saying we don’t want the benefits of it any more?</p> <p>That we’ll never, ever do it again?</p> <p>Do we need to stop completely?</p> <p>Could we just “slow down and speed up as circumstance dictates”?</p> <p>Do a knowingly sub-optimal version that feels doable at that point?</p> <p>Then, maybe, a bit more when we feel we can?</p> <p>It doesn’t need to be all or nothing.</p> <p>We never need to “quit”.</p> <p>Stopping completely